TY - JOUR
T1 - Secularity, religion, and the spatialization of time
AU - Amesbury, Richard
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PY - 2018/8/23
Y1 - 2018/8/23
N2 - Although "secularity" is often contrasted with "religion" as though the distinction between them bisected society, sorting practices and people into competing kinds, their relation is better understood as analogous to that between a frame and what is framed by it: secularity so conceived is not simply the inverse, negative space of religion but the epistemic regime that enables us to speak of "religion" in the first place, as a particular object of modern interest and anxiety. Secularity, I contend, can be understood temporally as that time in which religion occupies space. This paper draws upon Walter Benjamin's concept of "Messianic time" to gain critical leverage on the temporal horizons of the nation-state and the neoliberal market.
AB - Although "secularity" is often contrasted with "religion" as though the distinction between them bisected society, sorting practices and people into competing kinds, their relation is better understood as analogous to that between a frame and what is framed by it: secularity so conceived is not simply the inverse, negative space of religion but the epistemic regime that enables us to speak of "religion" in the first place, as a particular object of modern interest and anxiety. Secularity, I contend, can be understood temporally as that time in which religion occupies space. This paper draws upon Walter Benjamin's concept of "Messianic time" to gain critical leverage on the temporal horizons of the nation-state and the neoliberal market.
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U2 - 10.1093/jaarel/lfx047
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfx047
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85046867363
SN - 0002-7189
VL - 86
SP - 591
EP - 615
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
IS - 3
ER -